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British military installations are a frequent bombing target of the Irish Republican Army in its campaign to rid Northern Ireland of British rule, but today's explosion in the coastal town 70 miles southeast of London was the worst IRA attack on the British mainland in more than seven years.

The Irish Republican Army claimed reponsibilty for the explosion, which police said killed 11 people and injured 22.

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The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for a huge explosion Friday that reduced a three-story military barracks on the southeast coast of England to rubble, killing 10 people and injuring 22, eight seriously.

British military installations are a frequent target of the Irish Republican Army in its campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland and unite the predominantly Protestant province with the Roman Catholic Republic of Ireland.

The IRA claimed responsibility for the explosion, and police said they are looking for three men with Irish accents who rented a house overlooking the barracks .

One soldier was killed and nine wounded in an IRA bomb attack on an army barracks in north London in August 1988.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said Monday the Irish Republican Army members who blew up the Royal Marines School of Music and killed 10 bandsmen last week are ``monsters'' who will be found and punished.

One soldier was killed and nine wounded in an IRA attack on an army barracks in north London in August 1988.

The Royal Marines Music School is one of 30 military establishments in Britain that use private security firms, Defense Ministry figures show.

The blast occurred at at 8:26 a.m. in a lounge in the barracks near Deal, about 70 miles southeast of London, the Defense Ministry said.

A statement telephoned to Ireland International, a Dublin news agency, said ``we have visited the Royal Marines in Kent'' in response to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's visit to Northern Ireland nine days ago.

An explosion today flattened a military barracks and tore through nearby homes, killing 11 people and injuring 22, police said.

British military installations are a frequent target of the IRA's campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland and unite the predominantly Protestant province with the mainly Roman Catholic Republic of Ireland.

"Mrs. Thatcher visited Ireland with a message of war at a time when we want peace," the statement claiming responsibility for the Deal attack said.

An explosion rocked the Royal Marines School of Music in a southeastern coastal town today, causing one building to collapse and killing eight people, officials said.

After that, the ceiling started to fall down around me,'' said Joan Betteridge, a pensioner in the southern England town of Deal, where the blast at the Royal Marines School of Music occurred.

Friday's explosion occurred about 8:30 a.m. in a lounge at the Royal Marines School of Music near Deal, on the English Channel in the county of Kent.

Prince Philip on Sunday condemned the ``senseless'' killing of 10 Royal Marines musicians in an IRA bombing, and Britain's defense secretary said he warned all military bases of the risk of similar attacks.

Nine marine musicians and one civilian died in the blast, which also damaged dozens of nearby homes and could be heard two miles away.

Family members on Saturday grieved for their slain loved ones and criticized the security arrangements at the Royal Marines Music School, where an IRA terrorist attack killed 10 military musicians.

The IRA said Mrs. Thatcher went to the British province ``with a message of war,'' but ``we still want peace and we want the British government to leave our country''.

The music school is the training center for young recruits who want to play in the seven Royal Marines bands.

The prince, husband of Queen Elizabeth II and captain general of the Royal Marines, visited injured men in the hospital and toured the severely damaged Royal Marines School of Music in Deal, southeast Britain.

In July 1982, eight soldiers died in IRA bombings near the Household Cavalry barracks in central London and at a bandstand in the capital's Regent's Park where an army band was playing.

The IRA is fighting to end British rule in Northern Ireland and unite the predominantly Protestant province with the Roman Catholic Republic of Ireland.

It was the worst IRA attack on the British mainland since July 1982.

Friday's attack was the worst since July 1982 when 11 servicemen were fatally wounded in two bombings in central London.

Military targets on the British mainland have been attacked several times by the Irish Republican Army in the past year as part of its campaign to rid Northern Ireland of British rule.

In July 1982, eight soldiers died in IRA bombings near the Household Cavalry barracks at Knightsbridge in central London and at a bandstand in the capital's Regent's Park where an army band was playing.

He said the house, which overlooks the barracks recreation center destroyed by the Friday morning blast, was rented by its English owners to three men for two to three weeks.

More than 100 rescue workers frantically dug through the rubble of a three-story building that collapsed at the Royal Marines School of Music near Deal.

The IRA bombing that killed 10 men and blew apart a building at the Royal Marines Music School outraged Britons and stirred recriminations over safety standards at the school.

The Irish Republican Army on Friday claimed responsibility for the explosion, which also severely damaged several nearby houses.

The music school trains young recruits for the seven Royal Marines bands.

Police said all 10 men killed during a coffee break between morning band practices were servicemen.

'Appalling Outrage' Defense Secretary Tom King visited the scene and called the bombing "an appalling outrage committed against unarmed bandsmen -- people who worked for charity, who have given great enjoyment to millions right across the country, right across the world .

The outlawed Irish Republican Army, engaged in a 20-year-old campaign to drive the British from the province of Northern Ireland, claimed responsibility in a telephone call to Ireland International, a Dublin news agency.

Twelve of the 22 people injured were hospitalized, eight of them in serious condition, police said.

Friday's attack was the worst since July 1982, when 11 servicemen were fatally wounded in bombings in central London.

Mrs. Minnock's next-door neighbor, Heather Hackett, said she was standing at her kitchen window facing the barracks at the time of the explosion.

The mainly Roman Catholic IRA claim gave no details of the operation, but said it was a response to a ``message of war'' delivered by Mrs. Thatcher when she visited Northern Ireland nine days ago.

British military installations are a frequent target of the IRA campaign.

The last IRA bomb attempt on the British mainland was in February when about 60 soldiers were evacuated from their barracks in Shropshire, western England, just before a bomb exploded.

At the school are about 250 recruits who receive military and musical training before joining Royal Marines bands .

The IRA claimed responsibility for the blast.

Kent police said 17 or 18 people were trapped.

King defended the use of private security firms hired to guard the Deal school and 29 other ``low-risk'' military installations in Britain.

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